Over his long and successful career David Remfry MBE RA RWS has achieved a mastery of watercolour that few have matched. Unusually for the medium, he works on a large scale and often focuses on people, exploring the dance hall and the nightclub in breathtaking images that are at once beautiful and edgy.
This book is the first full-length monograph devoted to the artist's watercolours. Its author, James Russell, is well known for his writing on 20th-century British artists. Russell brings his scholarship, humour and fascination for people and their lives to his study of Remfry's career, tracing the evolution of a remarkable talent, looking in depth at the most significant works and placing Remfry in the context of both the British watercolour tradition and international contemporary painting. This is at once a glorious art book and an intimate portrait of city life.
Having spent 20 years living and working at the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York, Remfry has a following on both sides of the Atlantic. New Yorkers - often in party mode - feature in many of his watercolours, and his recollections of people and places add colour to the text.
| ISBN: | 9781912520886 |
| Publication date: | 14th April 2022 |
| Author: | David Remfry |
| Publisher: | Royal Academy of Arts |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Royal Academy of Arts |
| Genres: |
Individual artists, art monographs Paintings and painting in watercolours or pastels Exhibition catalogues and specific collections |